my 2011 keynote at Open Engagement, Portland State University

…the annual social practice art conference – where I had the pleasure of keynoting with Pablo Helguera and Julie Ault in 20111 – founded by Jen Delos Reyes in Portland has a great blog of 100 daily questions – to which I contributed yesterday’s entry – leading up to this years edition to be presented at the Queens Museum in New York.

Open Engagement is the international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice, and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. It is directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes. The 2014 Open Engagement conference is co-presented by the Queens Museum and A Blade of Grass, and takes place at the Queens Museum, New York Hall of Science, the Queens Theater, Immigrant Movement International, and various locations around New York. As in the past, Open Engagement will include a partnership with graduate programs featuring art and social engagement. This year this partnership will include a number of New York-based programs led by Social Practice Queens at Queens College, CUNY. Open Engagement is a free conference that will take place May 16–18, 2014.